Mobius report 71/2025 – Payloads and Fiber-Optic Control System for the Russian Molnya Fixed-Wing Loitering Munition
September 30, 2025Russian forces are now routinely employing Molnya fixed-wing improvised loitering munitions in combat. Operational footage of these UAS striking Ukrainian targets is being published on Russian Telegram channels on a near-weekly basis, underscoring their widespread deployment. The standardized fixed-wing platform...
Mobius report 70/2025 – Al-Saqri “Remote-Controlled VBIEDs Manual”
September 29, 2025On September 11, 2025, the Islamic State-affiliated Al-Saqri Foundation for Military Sciences published an instructional manual titled “Remote-Controlled VBIEDs Manual.” The document details a system for converting a vehicle into a remotely-driven and remotely-initiated VBIED, enabling remote guidance of an...
TGA0850 – Fiber-Optic Drone Countermeasures in Ukraine
September 28, 2025Drones equipped with fiber-optic spools have become a recurring feature in Ukraine. Conventional electronic countermeasures, which typically detect and disrupt radio-frequency communications, are largely ineffective against this capability. As a result, both Ukrainian and Russian forces have continued to develop...
Mobius report 69/2025 – Shooting and Suicide Attack at Greek Orthodox Church, Damascus, Syria
September 28, 2025On June 22, 2025, an attack occurred at the Greek Orthodox Church of St. Elias in the Dweil’a neighborhood of southern Damascus. According to reports, at least 25 people were killed and 60 others were wounded. The Syrian Ministry of...
Mobius report 68/2025 – Foiled Smuggling of Concealed IEDs into Russia
September 18, 2025On August 25, 2025, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation claimed it had thwarted a terrorist attack in Crimea (annexed by Russia in 2014), allegedly planned by the Security Service of Ukraine and targeting FSB personnel. A 54-year-old...
Mobius report 67/2025 – Perforating Charges in Venezuelan Seizures
September 16, 2025On August 3, 2025, Venezuelan security forces foiled a terrorist plot involving an RCIED targeting the Plaza de la Victoria de la Gran Guerra Patria monument in a public square in Caracas, capital of Venezuela. The IED contained six seismic...
Mobius report 66/2025 – ECCM Methods Applied with Weaponized UAVs in the Russian-Ukrainian Theater
September 16, 2025Since the start of the war in Ukraine, non-standard and irregular UAV warfare has rapidly developed and expanded in scope, perhaps more than any other method of warfare in this theater of operations. The mass use of both FPV racing...
Mobius report 65/2025 – SVBIED Attacks, Pakistan
September 16, 2025On August 31, 2025, Pakistani security forces foiled a major terrorist plot near Tiarza Gate Garrison, along the Wana-Upper Waziristan road in South Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. A vehicle carrying gas cylinders and seven barrels of improvised explosives, weighing approximately...
